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"Half a face, I was prepared for that move!" Katsuki Bakugo wasn't frozen. He put his hands behind his back and exploded repeatedly, using the recoil to dash towards Shoto Todoroki in mid-air!

"Todoroki, you're too naive!" Momo Yaoyorozu created an iron rod from her palm and used it to propel her out of the frozen ground.

As Shoto Todoroki ran, he glanced back. He had thought he could trap most of the people, but there were more people who had broken free from his ice than he had imagined. Not only the Hero Course, but also several people from the General Studies Course and Support Course had broken free and were walking step by step on the ice.

At this moment, Jilan Jiyu were running along the wall, passing over the heads of several people without changing their expressions despite their curses.

Before Shoto Todoroki released the ice stream, Jilan Jiyu felt the temperature in the air suddenly drop. Before that, he stepped on the wall, just in time to avoid the ice pillar that would freeze his foot.

Hamon is a universal energy similar to Chakra. Jilan Jiyu used Hamon to wrap his shoes and attach them to the wall, then started running along the wall, and at the exit he leaped out of the frozen area.

Jilan Jiyu glanced back and saw several people behind them with thick layers of ice on their legs, struggling to break it apart. The ice was full of cracks, and they were almost there.

Although I had originally planned to run along the wall, I didn't expect Shoto Todoroki's move to instantly propel me from the bottom to the second tier. Bakugo and Todoroki, who were in the first tier, were already close to reaching the first stage. However, I won't be thanking you.

"Waaaaah, class monitor, get out of the way!" Just as Jilan Jiyu started running, he suddenly heard Mina Ashido's voice from behind. He subconsciously turned his head and saw Ashido rushing towards him in a skating posture, unable to maintain her balance!

Mina Ashido barely made it to the edge of the ice in that position. The ground in front of her had turned into concrete. She saw Jilan Jiyu take a step back to the left and lean forward, about to fall. She instinctively covered her face with her hands, bracing herself for the impact.

... Strange, why doesn't it hurt? Mina Ashido didn't feel the pain she was supposed to feel. Instead, she felt an upward force at the back of her collar. She opened her eyes in confusion and saw that she was looking at the ground at a 45-degree angle.

Rescued, Mina Ashido ran after Jilan Jiyu, laughing as she said, "Hehe, thanks, class president! I knew only you would help me in a time like this."

Jilan Jiyu replied dismissively, "Anyone could do that, right?"

In Jilan Jiyu's opinion, Mina Ashido's mistake was just a momentary lapse, and if others had been there, they would have helped her. He himself was just there because he happened to be there.

"That's not how it is. This is something only you did, and it's the second time already..." Mina Ashido thought to herself.

Suddenly, Jilan Jiyu stopped, and Mina Ashido bumped into him without noticing. She rubbed her nose, walked over to Jilan Jiyu, and muttered to herself, "Why did you suddenly stop?"

Jilan Jiyu did not answer her, but stared solemnly ahead.

Mina Ashido followed Jilan Jiyu's gaze and was immediately stunned, exclaiming, "Isn't that our zero-score rival from the entrance exam?!"

"Ah, that's right."

Several people were standing in front of Jilan and Ashido, including Shoto Todoroki and Bakugo. In front of them were four or five enormous Zero-Point Robots, each as big as a building.

The robot's eyes glowed red, and a cold, rigid voice came from its head. "Enemy, in large numbers."

"Ladies and gentlemen, our Little Hero have encountered an obstacle right off the bat!" Using a drone that was following the students, Mic broadcast live to the audience, "As you can see, this is a super-sized robot. By the way, these are the very things they'll have to deal with during the U.A. High School Hero Course entrance exam!"

"Are you kidding me? How could anyone possibly beat something like that..."

This feeling arose simultaneously in the minds of the audience inside the arena and the students outside. A student from the General Studies Course, looking at the extremely imposing robot, was so frightened that he took two steps back and sat down on the ground, muttering to himself, "No way, is this what we have to deal with when we enter the Hero Course? Only people like the Red and White Devil from the Hero Course can deal with monsters like these..."

"That's right, only monsters can fight monsters. Ordinary students like me should just give up...!" He said this as he got up and tried to run towards the center of the stadium. "I don't care about losing face, I don't want to lose my life!" Thinking of the "life or death" waiver that the school made him sign yesterday, he ran even faster.

As he passed by someone, the person suddenly said with disgust, "Hey, you coward, don't you have any self-respect?"

"I'm not a coward! This is an enemy we can handle! This is a strategic... retreat." He reflexively turned his head to explain, even though he considered himself a coward in his heart, he couldn't admit defeat out of pride.

However, after he replied to that person, he gradually lost the ability to run, his thinking ability gradually disappeared, and he stopped moving a few meters away.

"Follow me." The man simply said this, and surprisingly, the student didn't even try to run away; instead, he obediently followed behind him!

"Ah! That's Shinso! He's controlled someone again!" A girl from the General Studies Course exclaimed after witnessing this.

"Don't talk! Do you want to be controlled too? This is a competition where you can use your Quirk at will. That guy is capable of anything!" A girl covered her mouth, looking at Shinso with fear, and warned her in her ear.

Hitoshi Shinso glanced at them, then walked straight ahead, with one person obediently following behind.

The girl breathed a sigh of relief and released her hand. The girl whose mouth she had covered looked at Shinso figure with disgust. "Why would the school admit someone with Quirk that can threaten others? Why not lock him up in jail? I don't want to die without knowing why!"

Shinso walked to the back of the crowd that was being blocked by the imaginary enemy, stopped, and looked at Shoto Todoroki and Katsuki Bakugo were at the front.

"I really envy you guys, having such powerful Quirk," Shinso muttered to himself, squinting. "But what I hate even more are those who have the power to fight but choose to run away."

"Since you don't want to compete, then lend me this power."